Being a nurse is not an easy job. You will have to deal with patients with different characteristics and illnesses. Moreover, the risk of acquiring an illness from your workplace is always possible, not to mention the stress due to […]
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A small clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health has found that eating during the nighttime—like many shift workers do—can increase glucose levels, while eating only during the daytime might prevent the higher glucose levels now linked with
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For nurses who commit suicide, job-related problems likely play a major role in that tragic decision. Such is the conclusion of a study of 203 nurses known to have job problems prior to death by suicide between 2003 and 2017
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The test results that hot day in early August shouldn’t have surprised me — all the symptoms were there. A few days earlier, fatigue had enveloped me like a weighted blanket. I chalked it up to my weekend of travel.
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The National Institute of Mental Health reports that mental illness costs the United States over $300 billion annually, with one in five adults experiencing some sort of mental health condition each year. As a growing number of frontline workers report
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As an intensive care physician in Southern California who endured the onslaught of COVID-19 in 2020, it has been deeply disheartening to experience chillingly familiar scenes all over again. The ICUs in the University of California San Diego Health hospital
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As we say goodbye and good riddance to a Delta August filled with distressing news, the Senate passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (S. 610) was a bright spot in a dark month. The news
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Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer that concentrates on the layer of tissues surrounding the internal organs. The disease is usually caused by asbestos exposure (according to the American Cancer Society, eight out of 10 cases can be traced
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By the time Kiki Radermacher, a mental health therapist, arrived at a Missoula, Montana, home on an emergency 911 call in late May, the man who had called for help was backed into a corner and yelling at police officers.
Nurses and doctors have long been famous (or notorious) for their coffee consumption. Is that an ironic indulgence in an unhealthy habit? Should we be comparing today’s coffee-dependent health professionals to their 1950s predecessors, who interviewed patients amid a haze
